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Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station
Author: Freericks
Date: 10-22-2011 - 18:00

Douglas McDonnell Wrote:
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> By the end of WWII, Douglas had facilities at
> Santa Monica, El Segundo, Long Beach, and
> Torrance, California. These were all aircraft
> plants with the Torrance plant not having an air
> strip making mainly subassemblies. If they made
> munitions, they were probably armed with
> explosives at an arsinal.
>
> Santa Monica priced the original plant out of
> Clover Field. The Northrop Grumman now occupies
> the El Segundo plant(which before that was an
> early Northrop plant before he moved to his first
> indepenantly owned plant in Hawthorne). Now
> Boeing, Long Beach has shrunk with the only(maybe
> last) program there being C-17 production.
> Torrance closed and is now a mix of retail and
> distribution.

Priced out? My understanding has always been that the planes Douglas was building had become too large for the Clover Field (today's Santa Monica Airport) runway.

I don't think it can handle a DC9.

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  Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Freericks 10-19-2011 - 13:11
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  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Paul Kepler 10-19-2011 - 18:22
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Severe Duty 10-19-2011 - 21:11
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station up833 10-19-2011 - 21:38
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Freericks 10-19-2011 - 21:54
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Severe Duty 10-19-2011 - 21:56
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Freericks 10-20-2011 - 07:12
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station up833 10-20-2011 - 07:54
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Severe Duty 10-20-2011 - 08:34
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Mike Swanson 10-20-2011 - 08:59
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station George Andrews 10-20-2011 - 11:13
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station David 10-20-2011 - 15:15
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station SP5103 10-20-2011 - 15:28
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Douglas McDonnell 10-21-2011 - 18:13
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Freericks 10-22-2011 - 18:00
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Freericks 10-22-2011 - 18:00
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Gary Hunter 10-20-2011 - 13:24
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station George Andrews 10-20-2011 - 16:20
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Freericks 10-20-2011 - 16:47
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Sgt. Joe Friday 10-20-2011 - 16:59
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station Freericks 10-20-2011 - 17:52
  Re: Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station SLOCONDR 10-20-2011 - 16:53
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